Series 02: Anne Donnell diary, 29 December 1917 - 31 January 1919 - Page 114

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[Page 114]

April 7 Sunday
This morning Sister Dolson came and spent the morning – She is the Canadian Sister I chummed up with at 48 C.C.S. She was still there on the morning of the 21st when the great battle commenced at 4.30 a.m. She was lucky, her leave having been arranged and so left at 7.30 a.m. – escaping with her luggage – when 2 hours later an order came to Evacuate the C.C.S. And the other Sisters or just escaped with their lives. Her vivid description of the tumult is what some would call thrilling – but any one that has been through it would call it – Hell – Even as she left the noise from their

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